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No. 8 Washington College Dispatches No. 13 W&L

from press release

LEXINGTON, Va. - Senior attackman Jim Cusick
(Fallston, Md./Calvert Hall)and sophomore midfielder Sid Looney
(Westhampton, N.Y./Westhampton)combined for six goals and three
assists as visiting eighth-ranked Washington College defeated
13th-ranked host Washington and Lee, 15-8, in a non-conference
men's lacrosse game this afternoon in Lexington, Va. The Shoremen
improved to 2-0 with the win, while the Generals slipped to 2-2
with the loss.

The Generals staked out an early 2-1 lead as Cameron Dabir
scored with 9:32 left in the first quarter for the Generals,
followed by an extra-man goal by Washington junior midfielder Grant
Hughes (Alexandria, Va./St. Stephen's & St. Agnes) with 7:36 to
go and another W&L goal by Cam Lewis with 3:41 on the clock.
The Shoremen then ran off five unanswered goals, beginning with a
tally by senior midfielder Hunter Nowicki (Baltimore, Md./Franklin)
with 2:30 left in the first and a goal by Cusick off an assist from
Looney with 1:53 to go in the period. The Shoremen finished off the
first-quarter scoring when junior attack man Sam Birnbaum
(Melville, N.Y./Half Hollows Hills East) scored off a feed from
junior midfielder Luke Birnbaum (Melville, N.Y./Half Hollows Hills
East)with nine seconds left.

Looney scored an unassisted goal with 13:44 on the clock and
Cusick scored off a Luke Birnbaum feed with 2:01 left to provide
all of the second-quarter scoring to give Washington the 6-2
halftime lead.

The Generals scored first in the third quarter as Lewis found
Garrett Paglia for an extra-man goal with 9:57 left, but the
Shoremen answered quickly with goals by junior midfielder Michael
Trapp (White Plains, N.Y./White Plains) and Cusick with 9:35 and
9:21 left, respectively. After Paglia scored again with 8:20 to go,
the Shoremen fired off four straight goals to take a 12-4 lead
after three quarters. Nowicki scored with 7:16 remaining, Trapp
scored at 6:58, Looney scored an extra-man goal off a Nowicki
assist with 5:30 left, and freshman long-stick midfielder Zachary
Kelly (Kennett Square, Pa./Salesianum School) scored with 2:06 on
the clock.

W&L scored the first three goals of the fourth quarter as
Sean Gebhard scored off a Lewis assist with 14:00 remaining and
netted another goal off a Buck Armstrong feed with 11:29 left
before Lewis scored with 9:45 to play. The Shoremen ended any hope
of a Generals' rally with goals by senior attackmanJD Campbell
(Baltimore, Md./Mount St. Joseph) and Looney - both off of assists
by Cusick - with 8:45 and 6:12 remaining, respectively. An
extra-man goal for W&L by Joe Wood off an assist from Christian
Zanetis and a goal by Hughes with 1:52 to play rounded out the
scoring.

Cusick finished the afternoon with three goals and two assists,
while Looney had three goals and one assist. Nowicki added two
goals and one assist, Trapp and Hughes each scored a pair of goals,
and Luke Birnbaum registered two assists. Junior goalie Ted DiSalvo
(Boca Raton, Fla./Spanish River)made 10 saves in the win for the
Shoremen.

Lewis led W&L with two goals and two assists, while Paglia
and Gehard each had two goals. Warren Berenis started in goal for
the Generals, but lasted just 16:18 after giving up five goals and
making two saves. Wyatt Devine played 43:42 in net for W&L and
made 12 saves while allowing 15 goals.

The Shoremen, whose win today was their first in Lexington since
2008, return to action Wednesday with a 4:00 p.m. home game against
14th-ranked St. Mary's.